Cool World vinyl

Oklahoma City noise-rock/sludge metal merchants Chat Pile caved the underground extreme metal and punk scenes into the skull with 2022's horrific debut full-length God's Country, where industrial-tinged pummelling grooves underpinned frontman Raygun Busch's spoken word/shrieking diatribes centred around the homeless and opioid crises of middle-America. In those two short years, the band have ballooned from relative unknowns to garnering praise from the type of outlets that usually would never even breathe in the toxic air Chat Pile call home, yet all eyes are now set on their Cool World sophomore endeavour, where the narrow scope of their home country has been expanded to lay waste to the utter shameful world that might think it got away from Busch and his cohorts the first time around. Marrying more grunge-laden melodious swagger into their increasingly abrasive tonal heft while throwing venomous barbs in every direction, no one makes it out this world unscathed. We must simply prepare for our apocalyptic soundtrack maestros to fill us in how utterly fucked we well and truly are.